Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

The first thermometer made with the almost-universal temperature scale is backwards.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

700 iron sculptures crammed into a Mediterranean park.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.